Lord Byron Quotes

Few things surpass old wine; and they may preach Who please, the more because they preach in vain.

Lord Byron

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• When you have children love is always there in the best form.

  

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• People don't usually compliment your character.

  

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• Since I achieved something, running has exploded in my country. For me sometimes it is difficult even to know who the athletes are who are competing at the highest level. There are thousands.

  

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• You know you're getting fat when you step on the dog's tail and he dies.

  

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• True friends will pick you up when you fall. The bad friends will have been the one who made you fall in the first place.

  

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• Almost anything can be improved with the addition of bacon.

  

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• It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.

  

  Aristotle
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  • Best
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• When asked what the stock market will do: It will fluctuate.

  

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• Okay, when you start to fight for equality, like Anand did in 1995, you could end up losing game 10, like he did, without putting up any kind of fight.

  

  Vladimir Kramnik
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• If he failed the first time he took his driver's licence test, it was mainly because he started an argument with the examiner in an ill-timed effort to prove that nothing could be more humiliating to a rational creature than being required to encourage the development of a base conditional reflex by stopping at a red light when there was not an earthly soul around, heeled or wheeled. He was more circumspect the next time, and passed.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
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• It is not my place in society that makes me well off, but my judgements, and these I can carry with me... These alone are my own and cannot be taken away.

  

  Epictetus
  • Society
  • Carry
  • Judgements

• I have yet to figure out whether it is I am that am crazy, or the world.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • World
  • Crazy
  • Figure Out

• When I did my first film, I was in college; I did it as a senior thesis. The original version was 60 minutes. But I developed it and made it almost 90 minutes. In 2007, it premiered in Venice, and I stopped in London to develop a script with my dad that fell apart, and we started 'Gravity.'

  

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  • College
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• All we had was her room, her stories, and the quiet that settled in as we tried in vain to spread ourselves out and fill the space she'd left behind.

  

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  • Quiet
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• I, too, often shrivel the grey shreds,Sniff them and think and sniff again and tryOnce more to think what it is I am remembering,Always in vain. I cannot like the scent,Yet I would rather give up others more sweet,With no meaning, than this bitter one.

  

  Edward Thomas
  • Remember
  • Sweet
  • Bitter

• I have faith that God will show you the answer. But you have to understand that sometimes it takes a while to be able to recognize what God wants you to do. That's how it often is. God's voice is usually nothing more than a whisper, and you have to listen very carefully to hear it. But other times, in those rarest of moments, the answer is obvious and rings as loud as a church bell.

  

  Nicholas Sparks
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  • Sometimes

• Few things surpass old wine; and they may preach Who please, the more because they preach in vain.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Vain
  • Preach
  • Old Wine